Design is an interdisciplinary subject with care and communication at its heart; the most powerful, well-loved and transformative designs connect humans together. This is a bit of a series within a series discussing the stages of design process, beginning with design inspiration.
Tag: knitwear design
FN2N, Part 1 | The Three Lions of Knitting Patterns: The designer, the technical editor, and the grader
This is the first post in the From Needle to Needle series, which covers grading and the pattern production process as a whole from the designer’s standpoint. It’s the journey that an idea takes from a designer’s imagination to the home of a knitting customer – needle to needle. The first thing to do is…
From Needle to Needle: Introducing a new blog series
Introducing a new blog series, in which I discuss the journey that an idea takes from a designer’s imagination to the home of a knitter – needle to needle
New Design: The Aneeta cardigan
Introducing another new design from the lockdown bottleneck: the Aneeta cardigan, knitted in The Fibre Company Luma! You can find this design in the latest issue of Knitting magazine, issue 210, which is out now. I published my first design about seven years ago, and I have always paid attention to how women’s clothes have…
Unpicking the Stitches: How I designed the Alpine cardigan
This project took a slightly unusual route into the world. It’s one of those ideas which ends up being very different to your original vision, but somehow works out anyway! Here’s what the Alpine cardigan could have been: A jumper Published in October Knitted in a shade of brown or green One thing that didn’t…
Unpicking the Stitches: How I designed the Westcott shawl, part 2
Last post, I talked about how I conceived the idea for the Westcott shawl. This time, I’m sharing the realisation process with you: how the idea for the design became a tangible, corporal garment and pattern. There’s always at least a little trepidation when you cast on the first few stitches or make the first…